he did this to pump and dump oil stocks just before he announced it,.
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"Rooting for Iran even a little bit" was not on my bingo card a year ago.
I wonder if USA can recover from Trump. November should bring a change, but is it enough? Doesn't look great.
All 'conspicuous' ballots will be seized
November will come and go
Good for them, hope they sink a US warship before this is done.
So fuck the US, but this is not good. This can create a huge economic crisis and food instability, which would create untold suffering among innocent poor people across the world.
You are allowed to rightfully criticize the US for this war, without applauding Iran sinking ships with fertilizer the world desperately needs to not starve.
He said warship, not cargo ship.
To be perfectly frank, with the system we had set up, that was inevitable. It would have been better if it happened 40 years ago, better to happen now than in another 40 years.
Clearly, if one point of failure causes it to collapse within a month, the system was not stable. There was no other path but collapse of the global economy.
A bit too on the nose to call us marines fertilizer no? Shit absolutely, but not fertilizer
One common fertilizer is literally shit. So I guess I did worry more about the Iranians hitting literal shit, than the Iranians hitting US Marines... /s
Iran has more credibility than the orange pedophile
I would not at all go that far. Iran's regime is horrendous and they were murdering and abducting civilians by the thousands for the past year or two. They are just as in need of a propaganda win as fuckface.
Remember everyone: Just because one side is an asshole doesn't mean the other isn't one too.
Preposter said they have more credibility, not that they are less horrible. I feel that's an important distinction
I am aware of everything you said... yet Iran STILL has more credibility than the child rapist pressy
I am not, AT ALL, saying Iran is not an asshole, that's just your strawman
Every side in this conflict sucks, but I'd still believe the officials in Iran over the officials in the US. The American government is very obviously and methodically lying to our faces every single day and without shame. I don't see a reason to assume the same for Iran, even if they are terrible people.
the thing is we in the rest of the world are in the middle of a gun fight between two gangs. We like neither of them much at this point but really wish they'd stop shooting everywhere and their bosses just go resolve their issues with knives in a dark alley or something.
I feel like an unwilling participant on the U.S. side. I want my tax dollars to stop going to this shit. First time in my life that I've seriously thought we should stop paying federal taxes.
Doesn't change the fact that Irans fucking war propaganda is more credible than the tweets of the President of the United States of America.
As someone else mentioned Iran is morally reprehensible but they haven’t been found lying so often like Israel and US.
Iran:

Trump really screwed any attempts to end this war when he started it by dropping bombs while in the middle of peace negotiations. What a fucking idiot. not that he had any credibility to begin with, but now he has negative credibility.
Plus... TACO
Can’t taco out of a situation you weren’t really in in the first place. Remember, this guy had so little credibility to start with, Oman was negotiating for him, lol.
What a fucking loser and literally incredible idiot
The markets reacting as if Trump's words are based in reality at all is astonishing.
This shows how bullshit and broken the system is.
I don't think it was nearly as broken before Trump.
Keep Hormuz close until The US and Israel pays reparations for all the damage they done, infrastructure and civilian lives, and all that infrastructure is up and running again.
Iran be like

Maybe we could hand trump over to the IRGC for peace
Dream scenario tbh.
First, I think Trump should send ICE to "secure" Kharg Island.